2027Organising Committee

The team behind CILIA2027 · March 8–12, 2027, Milan, Italy

main organizer

Conference Chair

Alessandra Boletta

San Raffaele Hospital · Milan, Italy

Dr. Boletta is a senior investigator at the San Raffaele Institute in Milan where she has been working on cilia and ciliopathies for the past two decades. She is an ERC Advanced Grant holder and has extensive experience in meeting organization. She has been Director of the Division of Genetics and Cell Biology (2014–2019), initiating and organizing the tradition of an annual Divisional Retreat (approx. 150 people). She has served on the committee for the organization of the general San Raffaele Institutional Retreat (approx. 500 people), and on several Institutional, National and International committees — including the organizing committees of the European Renal Association (ERA 2025, Vienna) and the European Cilia meeting (Cilia 2024, Dublin). She has been involved in organization of the annual meeting of the PKD Center at the University of Baltimore, USA. She is founder and current vice-chair of the scientific committee of the Italian Association for PKD, contributing to the organization of several national meetings.

Co-Organizers

Ruxandra Bachmann-Gagescu

University of Zurich · Zurich, Switzerland

Alexandre Benmerah

INSERM · Paris, France

Fiona Copeland

Ciliopathy Alliance · London, UK

Martina Huranová

Institute of Molecular Genetics, Czech Academy of Sciences · Prague, Czech Republic

Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi

Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Norway

Moe Mahjoub

Washington University School of Medicine · St. Louis, USA

Vito Mennella

University of Cambridge · Cambridge, UK

David Mick

Saarland University · Homburg, Germany

Gaia Pigino

Human Technopole · Milan, Italy

John Sayer

Newcastle University · Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Enza Maria Valente

University of Pavia · Pavia, Italy

Dagmar Wachten

University of Bonn · Bonn, Germany

in-ENTERTAINMENT

Participants will have the opportunity to dive into an innovative atmosphere made of images, lights, sounds, flavours which we hope will make the intervals between presentations more enjoyable (see in-entertainment organization).

in-INNOVATION CHALLENGE

At the end of the scientific program, the audience will vote for the best innovative young scientific communication for Interventional Radiology, the best innovative young scientific communication for Endovascular Therapy, the 2022-23 best innovative Italian paper for Interventional Radiology, the 2022-23 best innovative Italian paper for Endovascular Therapy, selected and proposed by 3 experts for each competition. The best 4 “innovators” will be awarded at the end of the in-congress (see in-innovation challenge rules and summary table of in-innovation challenge).

in-SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

The in-scientific program has been planned to collect and spread the most recent innovations. Technological innovations, clinical innovations, novel applications of conventional techniques will be highlighted and discussed by a highly qualified faculty composed of the best Italian interventional radiologists and vascular surgeons. The program includes 14 scientific in-sessions, 6 in-key honorary lectures of European leaders in Interventional Radiology and Vascular Surgery, 2 industry focuses. The congress will last two days, the first dedicated to Interventional Radiology, the second to Endovascular Therapy (see in-session modalities, recommendations, for moderators/speakers/discussants and slides preparation).